Within neighborhood
100
th percentile
Very High
Neighborhood · Ranked #39,308 of 84,120 nationally
Papermill Bluffs Eviction Risk: Moderate , Fort Wayne
Tract 18003004103 · Allen County, IN · pop 6,338 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi
Census tract 18003004103 covers part of the Papermill Bluffs area of Fort Wayne, IN, and scores 4.6/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 6,338. The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.
Risk score
4.6
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 40%
Stable renters 44%
Owners 16%
Tract context
Occupied units3,072
Renter share84.8%
SVI overall0.71
Poverty rate23.6%
Median income$56,011
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
97
th percentile
Very High
Within county
86
th percentile
High
Within state
78
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Fort Wayne and the region
Centroid at 41.1299, -85.1063 · click any tract to drill in
Why Papermill Bluffs scores 4.6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Fort Wayne
3.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
4.4
State political climate
Indiana legislature & governorship
2.0
Economic stress
23.6% poverty · this tract
5.9
Supply constraint
$1,080 rent vs county FMR
4.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Fort Wayne
1.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
1.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Fort Wayne
1.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Fort Wayne
2.0
How Papermill Bluffs compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 71
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 57%Socioeconomic
- 44%Household composition
- 59%Racial/ethnic minority
- 90%Housing & transportation
Eviction filings
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 574Total filings over 2 yrs
- 12.78%Avg annual filing rate
- 16.3%Peak (2018)
- 365Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Papermill Bluffs. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 12.0%Housing insecurity
- 9.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 15.7%Food insecurity
- 9.1%SNAP enrollment
- 9.2%Transit barriers
- 8.4%No health insurance
- 19.2%Frequent mental distress
- 29.6%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Papermill Bluffs
This is renter territory: 85% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.9/10. Severe burden reaches 22%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.5/10. Cost burden runs 48% here against 38.5% across Allen County. The poverty rate is 24%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.
The filing record is not thin: 574 evictions over 2 years of observation. It sits 0.9 points above the Allen County average of 3.7.
Filings peaked in 2018 at 16.3% of renter households. At $1,080 a month, rents run 8% over what the rest of Fort Wayne commands. In a typical year about 12.8% of renter households face a filing.
That is riskier than roughly 53% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 7.4/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.
Frequently asked
About tract 18003004103
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 18003004103?
Census tract 18003004103 in the Papermill Bluffs neighborhood scores 4.6/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the average rent in tract 18003004103?
Median gross rent is $1,080/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 48% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 18003004103?
23.6% of residents in tract 18003004103 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 6,338.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 18003004103?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 71th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 57th, household 44th, minority 59th, housing 90th.
Q5
Is tract 18003004103 considered part of Papermill Bluffs?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 18003004103 fall within Papermill Bluffs (neighborhood centroid within 0.6 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 18003004103?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 574 eviction filings across 2 validated years in tract 18003004103 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 12.78% of renter households, peaking at 16.3% in 2018. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 18003004103 struggle to pay rent?
About 12.0% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 9.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 18003004103 compare to Fort Wayne overall?
Tract 18003004103 scores 4.6/10, higher than the parent city of Fort Wayne at 3.2/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Fort Wayne eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
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